Re: Britain Booms!
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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My only regret is that we still trade with China (The regime that brought the World to its knees and killed a few million people) Other than that, it is great news. I hope we start producing more goods here at home as soon as we get back to normality.
“We’ve got our freedom, we can make trade agreements with other countries outside Europe [and] we can employ people from all around the world,” said Sir James, who moved Dyson’s manufacturing operations out of the UK almost two*decades*ago and shifted its corporate headquarters to Singapore*in 2019.
And Sir James’ views on the beneficial impact of leaving the EU since 31 December are just as unrepresentative of the feeling in the wider UK manufacturing sector.
There was a recovery in February, but overall levels remain well below the average of previous years. However, manufacturing exports seem to have held up better than other sectors such as live animals and chemicals.
Stephen Phipson of Make UK says there has been a “twin track” for the sector in recent months, with big manufacturing firms managing to keep exporting, albeit with significant extra costs, but smaller firms simply being unable to.
One in twenty exporters*surveyed*by the Federation of Small Businesses last month also said they’d decided to simply stop trying to sell to the bloc, with one in ten considering it.